Reports: Diplomatic efforts to avoid Hezbollah involvement in war

Israel has exerted intensive diplomatic efforts to avoid Hezbollah’s involvement in the ongoing war with Hamas, media reports said.

“The ambassadors of world powers informed Lebanese officials of the threats and repercussions that might result from dragging Lebanon into the current conflict, asking them to exert all the necessary pressures on Hezbollah so that it doesn’t take a decision to get involved in the ongoing fighting,” highly informed Lebanese political sources told ad-Diyar newspaper.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Washington wants to “prevent the emergence of a second front in this conflict, including with Hezbollah in Lebanon.”

"One of the reasons why U.S. President Joe Biden said from the very first moment that no one should try to take advantage of the situation was precisely to prevent the emergence of a second front in this conflict, including with Hezbollah in Lebanon. We saw limited rocket attacks from Lebanon on Israel, the Israelis responded immediately, and it looks like everything has stopped for now. At the moment, the situation is calm, but we are following it very closely," he stressed.

Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for his part said that Israel has asked several nations to inform Lebanon’s government that it would be held responsible for any Hezbollah attack.